Registration is now open for the 24th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering (GC&E) Virtual Conference, hosted by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute®. Originally scheduled for June 16-18, 2020, in Seattle, Washington, GC&E has gone virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Virtual Conference is free and will take place June 15-19, 2020. Register for free here Registration will...

The primary purpose of the position is to conduct laboratory experiments, field plot studies, and collection of samples in watersheds to determine the occurrence, fate and transport of agriculturally-important pollutants and to evaluate the effectiveness of management practices and mitigation procedures. This position targets scientists with a MS degree or BS degree + experience but...

Registration is now open for the 24th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering (GC&E) Virtual Conference, hosted by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute®. Originally scheduled for June 16-18, 2020, in Seattle, Washington, GC&E has gone virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Virtual Conference is free and will take place June 15-19, 2020. Register for free here Registration will include: Access to all conference programming...

The primary purpose of the position is to conduct laboratory experiments, field plot studies, and collection of samples in watersheds to determine the occurrence, fate and transport of agriculturally-important pollutants and to evaluate the effectiveness of management practices and mitigation procedures. This position targets scientists with a MS degree or BS degree + experience but all are welcome to apply. When applying for federal...

Kristen Davis, an Associate Professor and SCCOOS PI at the University of California, Irvine, is looking to hire a postdoc for a project on the physical processes driving the formation and breakdown of hypoxia in a tropical bay. Please share the opportunity to graduate students and researchers who you think might be particularly well-suited for the position. Please send any questions about the position to Kristen Davis...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now seeking applications proposing to research, develop, design, and demonstrate solutions to real world challenges as part of its People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) Award Program. The P3 program is a unique competition open to teams of college/university students working to design solutions toward the mutual goals of improved quality of life, economic prosperity and protection of...

UC Davis Distinguished Professor Bill Casey has been named a 2019 ACS Fellow. The announcement can be found here. Professor Casey’s research involves the study of reactions between water, rock, and minerals—work that recently led to a new mineral, caseyite, being named in his honor! See the UC Davis press release here.

This spring, the Sacramento section of the American Chemical Society hosted the annual regional Chemistry Olympiad tryouts. The first and second rounds took place in March and April at Sacramento City College. Over 80 students from many local high schools participated in the first round. After a rigorous written test the top ten scorers were selected to go on to round two, where they completed more written and practical exams. ...

ACS Sacramento Section is proud to present the 2018 Flavors of Chemistry event. The event will feature Prof. Charlie Bamforth speaking about the flavors of beer and Prof. David Everett talking about the flavors of cheese. The event will occur on Saturday September 29th from 1-4pm in the Activities and Recreation Center (ARC) Ballroom on the UC Davis campus. Prof. Bamforth is the Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Malting and...

It was another great showing at this year’s High School Chemistry Olympiad with 60 students chowing up from 14 area high schools. These included Sheldon, Folsom, Davis, Pioneer, Mira Loma, Sacramento Country Day, Tracy, Oak Ridge, Rocklin, Lodi, Oakmont, Franklin, Vista de Lago, and John Adams Academy High Schools. The Olympiad was hosted by Mako Masuno and Varnell Crankfield at Sacramento City College (SCC) and sponsored by ACS...

Joyce Nao Takahashi (a.k.a. Joyce T. Doi) has been a member of the ACS for 60 years. We are pleased to be able to honor her at our 2017 Flavors of Chemistry event. We asked Joyce to write a summary of her years with ACS: I joined the student affiliates of ACS when I was an undergraduate at UC Berkeley. Initially I was planning to be a high school science teacher, but my fascination with chemistry led me to graduate school at UCLA...

As the spring semester begins at Sacramento State University, the Chemistry Club takes time to reflect back on a productive fall semester and is poised to take advantage of opportunities in the spring semester. October began with our club hosting a workshop for the Expanding Your Horizons conference at Sacramento State. It has become an annual tradition for the Chemistry Club to participate in this conference; we take great pride in...